JUNE 135 



sheen ; it is, unmistakably, none other 

 than an exceptionally fine brown-trout. 

 This would seem to show that a trout 

 does not become a Lochleven trout 

 merely by living in Lochleven. The 

 true Lochleven trout, in common with 

 every other fish of the salmon kind, 

 prefers to breed with his own race. It 

 may be, after all, that he really is a scion 

 of the seatrout. 



Why worry about his pedigree when 

 we might be thinking of having a bout 

 with him ? June is the month of months 

 for that fine ploy. Lochleven is then at 

 its best. If you are a fairly competent 

 fisherman the one possibility to be 

 dreaded is that of adverse weather. You 

 shall have only a trout or two, if any, 

 when the atmosphere is fermenting into 

 thunder, and, except in the lee of an 

 island here or there, a boat on Lochleven 

 is not easy to manage when the wind 

 becomes more than half-a-gale ; but in 

 June the atmosphere as a rule is still 

 wholesome and the breezes have become 



